Raising Your Gamerscore By PowerLeveling

Joystiq is reporting on a new outfit claiming they'll powerlevel your gamerscore for cash. For $300, they say, they'll raise your Xbox Live gamerscore by 3000 points. Ozymandias, a member of the 360 Launch Team, has commentary on the situation. From his post: "The thing that struck me as most interesting about this is that Achievements (and the Gamerscore associated with them) have become a currency... one just as valuable as virtual currency in MMOs, and one some people might be willing to pay real dollars for. I certainly don't condone it, but it does support my belief that competitors will need to have their own Achievements/Gamerscore system in the future as it's definitely a tipping aspect for some folks. (For the record, I now believe the rumor of PS3 'Entitlements' to be false; however, I fully expect a similar solution within the next year or so once the online service has launched.)"

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Re:this is what turns me off online gaming

[aiken_d]

Defcon is for you. Online play, but scores just disappear after each game. No ladders, no high scores, no score history, no levels, nothing. Plus, the whole point is to blow everyone up, so there's not a lot of room for griefers (what are they going to do, *not* launch their nukes?). It's not an RPG or anything, but it's the first online game I've ever been able to enjoy *every* game, not just when I happen to fall in with decent people.